{"id":500,"date":"2008-09-24T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/24\/on-campus-swim\/"},"modified":"2008-09-24T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T18:38:00","slug":"on-campus-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/24\/on-campus-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"on campus, swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was headed up campus to swim recently and went past what looked like a mini-skate park set up on the tennis courts.   Seemed a little odd to me &#8211; but what was odder was the sponsor of the event &#8211; the national guard.   I&#8217;m sure there are skate boarders that are also in the national guard, but it doesn&#8217;t seem like there would be that large of an overlap.   More troubling were the two attractive girls I saw walk into the student center with cheaply made back packs with the National Guard logo on them &#8211; with the intent to give these out.    I think the term for this kind of behavior is a &#8220;shill&#8221;.   In any case, it bothers me that the national guard is able to recruit on a college campus.  I&#8217;m not entirely sure why it bothers me, but it does.  Especially with the skate park and the pretty girls as recruiting tools.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the College Republicans had a table set up in the student center that same day.  Seemed an odd coincidence.  <\/p>\n<p>In other news&#8230; I&#8217;ve been keeping up with my swimming, though today was very tiring &#8211; more so than usual.  Still got in my 30 laps, but I didn&#8217;t enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>Only about an hour or so to go for the day &#8211; later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-2210803289699815624?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was headed up campus to swim recently and went past what looked like a mini-skate park set up on the tennis courts. Seemed a little odd to me &#8211; but what was odder was the sponsor of the event &#8211; the national guard. I&#8217;m sure there are skate boarders that are also in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}